Create a token

A user can only have one token, which means that generating a new token will invalidate the previous one. Only someone with superuser privileges can generate a new token.

PUT /api/authenticate

Body parameters

Name	Type	Description
`user_name`	`String`	The username of the user to generate a new token for

Body examples

{
  "user_name":"Username"
}

Response

Response	Description
`200 Ok`	Returns the newly generated token to be used in the `X-Auth-Token` header

Response examples

Status: 200 Ok

{
  "token" : "newly-generated-token-to-be-used-in-X-Auth-Token-header"
}

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